The Field Hospital: Our Lady of Guadalupe Circle is a national coalition of indigenous people, Catholic clergy, women religious and lay people dedicated to healing the relationship between the Catholic Church and Canada's First Nations.
Laid bare, participants said, were tensions over muddy communications, lack of consultation, low clergy morale, unilateral initiatives by Archbishop Cordileone, and his embrace of "a pre-Vatican II church."
"We have families — we have a lot of families," Kathleen Domingo, the Los Angeles Archdiocese's senior director of the Office of Life, Justice and Peace said. "And when we start asking families, 'Would you consider fostering,' we have been overwhelmed by the generosity."
Commentary: You're in, then you're out, and the whiplash between news cycles leaves me reeling. What is the state of LGBTQ ministry in our church, and how can we become better advocates for ourselves?
